Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region I
CABALITIAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Umingan, Pangasinan

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION

21st Century Literature
Grade 12

NAME: SCORE:

GRADE & SECTION: DATE:

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Shade the letter of your answer in the bubble sheet provided. Do not write anything in the
test paper.

1. What period was when all literature produced were chants, proverbs, songs, and folk narratives?
A. Pre-colonial C. American Period
B. Spanish Period D. Japanese Period
2. What is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed?
A. Epic C. Epic
B. Riddles D. Legend
3. What do you call on practical observations and philosophy of everyday life that are written usually in a rhyming
scheme?
A. Riddles C. Proverbs
B. Myths D. Epics
4. What do you call on the author’s attitude towards his work and his readers?
A. Purpose C. Mood
B. Perspective D. Tone
5. What type of literary pieces which discusses occurrences on the earth and how things on earth were created?
A. Epic C. Myth
B. Legend D. Story
6. What type of literary pieces is sung to put children to sleep?
A. Love song C. Drinking songs
B. Lullaby D. Work Songs
7. What type of literary piece is a song that fosters cohesiveness within the community?
A. Love song C. Drinking songs
B. Lullaby D. Work Songs
8. What type of literary piece is sung during carousals?
A. Love song C. Drinking songs
B. Lullaby D. Work Songs
9. What type of literary piece is a song that frequently concerns romantic love that forms or strengthens bonds
between lovers?
A. Love song C. Drinking songs
B. Lullaby D. Work Songs
10. What type of literary piece is a song for solemn affairs?
A. Love song C. Religious songs
B. Lullaby D. Work Songs
11. What type of literary piece is regarded as sacred and explain the origin and goal of the cosmos?
A. Riddles C. Proverbs
B. Myths D. Epics
12. What type of literary piece are short tales, usually involving animals, which teach a moral lesson?
A. Trickster tale C. Fables
B. Short Story D. None of the above
13. What type of literary piece talks about the recounts and adventures of a clever hero who outwits authority
figures, usually coming from the upper classes?
A. Trickster tale C. Fables
B. Short Story D. None of the above
14. What do you call a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ, beginning from his birth up to his death?
A. Pasyon C. Awit
B. Cenaculo D. Moro moro
15. What is a colorful tale of chivalry made for singing and chanting?
A. Pasyon C. Awit
B. Cenaculo D. Moro moro
16. What do you call on the dramatization of the passion of Christ?
A. Pasyon C. Awit
B. Cenaculo D. Moro moro
17. What do you call on the dramatization of the passion of Christ blood-and-thunder melodrama depicting the
conflict of Christians and Muslims?
A. Pasyon C. Awit
B. Cenaculo D. Moro moro
18. What do you call on the dramatic reenactment of St. Helena’s search for the Holy Cross?
A. Tibag C. Duplo
B. Karagatan D. Moro moro
19. What is the name of the literary piece where roles are taken from the Bible and from proverbs and saying?
A. Tibag C. Duplo
B. Karagatan D. Moro moro
20. What do you call on a poetic vehicle of a socio-religious nature celebrated during the death of a person?
A. Tibag C. Duplo
B. Karagatan D. Moro moro
21. Who is considered the father of the drama?
A. Pluto C. Jose Rizal
B. Zarzuela D. Juaquin Jose
22. What novel exposed the evils in society?
A. Noli Me Tangere C. La Solidaridad
B. El Felibusterismo D. None of the above
23. What novel exposed the evils in the government and in the church?
A. Noli Me Tangere C. La Solidaridad
B. El Felibusterismo D. None of the above
23. What novel exposed the evils in the government and in the church?
A. Noli Me Tangere C. La Solidaridad
B. El Felibusterismo D. None of the above
24. What period is when new literary forms were introduced, chiefly, free verse, the modern short story, and the
critical essay - Filipino writers imitated English and American models - Poems were amateurish and mushy?

A. Pre-colonial C. American Period

B. Spanish Period D. Japanese Period
25. What period is when the common theme of poems was nationalism, country, love, life in barrios, faith, religion,
and the arts
A. Pre-colonial C. American Period
B. Spanish Period D. Japanese Period
26. What type of metaphor which part of something is used to signify the whole, as when gossip is called a
“wagging tongue.”?
A. Simile C. Synecdoche
B. Metaphor D. Mytonymy
27. What type of metaphor is in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it, such as
saying the “silver screen” to mean motion pictures?
A. Simile C. Synecdoche
B. Metaphor D. Mytonymy
28. What do you call to the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the
beginning of a word or stressed syllable?
A. Assonance C. Denotation
B. Alliteration D. Connotation
29. What refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to
that word?
A. Assonance C. Denotation
B. Alliteration D. Connotation
30. What refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition”?
A. Assonance C. Denotation
B. Alliteration D. Connotation
31. What do you call on the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are
different from their literal sense?
A. Repetition C. Theme
B. Symbolism D. None of the above
32. What literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more
memorable?
A. Repetition C. Theme
B. Symbolism D. None of the above
33. What is defined as the main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or
indirectly?
 A. Repetition C. Theme
B. Symbolism D. None of the above
34. What is a literary type that is merely always written in stanzas and lines creating a unique look on the page?
A. Poetry C. Prose
B. Drama D. Media
35. What categorization was created to encompass the many new and important kinds of texts in our society today
such as movies and films, websites, commercials, billboards, and radio programs?
A. Poetry C. Prose
B. Drama D. Media
36. What do you call on any kind of written text that is not poetry?
A. Poetry C. Prose
B. Drama D. Media
37. What do you call on any text meant to be performed rather than read?
A. Poetry C. Prose
B. Drama D. Media
38. What do you call on a short story based on true accounts?
A. Description C. Anecdotes
B. Narration D. Insights
39. What do you call on the expansion of understanding gained by the narrator or reader?
A. Description C. Anecdotes
B. Narration D. Insights
40. What do you call on the account of a person, object, or event that enables the reader to get a clear picture of
what is being described?
A. Description C. Anecdotes
B. Narration D. Insights
41. What do you call on the act of telling a story?
A. Description C. Anecdotes
B. Narration D. Insights
42. In literature, what refers to the classifications or ways of differentiating one thing from another?
A. Fiction C. Genres
B. Non-Fiction D. Insights
43. What are the mental and moral qualities that make someone distinctive?
A. Characters C. Characterization
B. Characteristics D. All of the above
44. What do you call on the parts of a text preceding and following any particular passage, giving its meaning fuller
or more identifiable than if it were read in isolation?
A. Concept C. Classifications
B. Context D. All of the above
45. What do you call on the mental and moral qualities that make someone distinctive?
A. Characters C. Characterization
B. Characteristics D. All of the above
46. What do you call on something that involves the physical attributes, get–up, or mannerisms of a character, as
described by the narrator?
A. Internal qualities C. Local Color
B. External Qualities D. Plot
47. What do you call on the movement of a narrative?
A. Internal qualities C. Local Color
B. External Qualities D. Plot
48. What do you call on the physical attributes, get–up, or mannerisms of a character, as described by the narrator?
A. Internal qualities C. Local Color
B. External Qualities D. Plot
49. What do you call on manifested through dialogue, motivation, and action?
A. Internal qualities C. Local Color
B. External Qualities D. Plot
50. What do you call on the specific details are placed because they enhance the reality crafted by the story?
A. Internal qualities C. Local Color
B. External Qualities D. Plot

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays
young.”
GOD BLESS YOU!

Prepared by:
LORIELE P. LANTION